 |
Couldn't find the Ivanhoe, so took a
picture at the intersection instead :p |
Today was a fairly lazy day. We wandered around downtown Rotorua looking for an old hostel, called the Ivanhoe, where Janna's parents once lived for a while. It seems to have disappeared. Or we are really bad finders :p
We then drove out to Lake Taupo, an enormous caldera formed about 27000 years ago (great big lake in the centre of the north island). Draining from Lake Taupo is the Waikato River - suuuuuper vivid colours!
 |
Huka Falls, Waikato River
200 000 litres per second |
From there we continued on to Tongariro National Park. We're going for a hike tomorrow, in between Mount Tongariro and Mount Ngauruhoe (more widely known as Mount Doom :p ). There was an eruption here last November which hasn't entirely settled down, so the second half of the trail is still closed (I'll stick up some pictures showing steam/smoke/volcano-breath coming out of the mountain), but we'll do the first half anyhow. We're starting pretty early though, so I'm going to bed!
Cheers,
Marysa
No comments:
Post a Comment